suggestiveness

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The suggestiveness of silence often creates a headwind for authors, who might seem not to have earned their text’s mystery.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2020

Seemingly lackadaisical, Mills’ paintings are exceptionally efficient, both for the brevity of their gestures and for the suggestiveness of their compositions — which are sketchy in the best sense of the term.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2016

But he conceded that the suggestiveness was the product of happenstance and not official conduct.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2011

Without style there was no suggestiveness, and with no suggestiveness, no metaphor.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2010

Many of his aphorisms are indeed dark sayings, but those that yield their meaning are full of truth and suggestiveness.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward